Transfer 101
California community college students transferring to a UC campus generally need this minimum number of UC-transferable semester units to qualify as junior-level transfers.
What is 60 semester units?
This campus creek flows through the Berkeley campus and is crossed by several pedestrian bridges.
What is Strawberry Creek?
This is the number of elected senators who serve in the ASUC Senate.
What is 20?
UC Berkeley's original campus was located in this Bay Area city before moving to Berkeley in 1873.
What is Oakland?
This UC Berkeley academic policy allows students to take certain courses without receiving a traditional letter grade.
What is Pass/No Pass grading?
This California website allows transfer students to check course articulation agreements between community colleges and UC or CSU campuses.
What is ASSIST.org?
This student union, named after a prominent civil rights leader, is located on Sproul Plaza.
What is the Martin Luther King Jr. Student Union?
This ASUC executive office is primarily responsible for representing student interests in city and community affairs.
What is the External Affairs Vice President's Office?
This 1964 student activist became one of the most recognizable leaders of Berkeley's Free Speech Movement.
Who is Mario Savio?
This campus center provides dedicated resources, advising, and community support for transfer students.
What is the Transfer Student Center?
This UC Berkeley college is home to the largest number of undergraduate majors and is commonly abbreviated L&S.
What is the College of Letters & Science?
This Berkeley building was the site of the December 1964 student sit-in that became a defining moment of the Free Speech Movement.
What is Sproul Hall?
This ASUC judicial body hears cases concerning alleged violations of the ASUC Constitution and governing rules.
What is the Judicial Council?
This Berkeley physicist led the Manhattan Project's scientific laboratory at Los Alamos during World War II.
Who is J. Robert Oppenheimer?
This is the maximum number of lower-division semester units from community college coursework that may count toward the 120-unit minimum for a UC Berkeley bachelor's degree.
What is 70 semester units?
This term describes a course taken at a community college that UC Berkeley recognizes as equivalent to one of its own courses.
What is an articulated course?
This Berkeley landmark, completed in 1914, was modeled in part after the bell tower in St. Mark's Square in Venice.
What is Sather Tower?
This statewide student organization represents University of California students and advocates on issues such as affordability, financial aid, and higher education policy.
What is the University of California Student Association (UCSA)?
This California governor signed the 1960 Master Plan for Higher Education into law through related legislation.
Who is Pat Brown?
This requirement generally mandates that UC Berkeley undergraduates complete at least 24 units of upper-division coursework in residence to graduate.
What is the senior residence requirement?
Unlike several other UC campuses, UC Berkeley does not participate in this program that guarantees admission to eligible California community college transfer applicants.
What is the Transfer Admission Guarantee (TAG)?
This campus building, home to the Department of Political Science, is named after a former California governor and U.S. Supreme Court chief justice.
What is Warren Hall?
This constitutional amendment, approved by ASUC voters in 2019, established a dedicated Transfer Student Representative seat in the ASUC Senate.
What is the Transfer Remedy Act?
This UC Berkeley alumnus became Chief Justice of the United States and presided over the landmark Brown v. Board of Education decision.
Who is Earl Warren?
This academic distinction is awarded to graduating Berkeley students who rank among the highest-performing students in their college or school, subject to its eligibility criteria.
What is University Honors?